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(c) At Yau Ma Tei Station, all the timber garden seats on the station platform were replaced by 102 concrete benches with terrazzo finish.

49. Station Buildings. The station building at Kowloon Terminus, Yau Ma Tei and Sha Tin were overhauled and re-decorated.

50. Staff Quarters. Major overhauls and redecoration work were done to the staff quarters for Hung Hom Stores, engine crews' quarters, Workshops foremen's quarters and nissen hut quarters for Workshops staff at Hung Hom; Traffic Quarters at Blackheads, Yau Ma Tei and Sha Tin; Headmen's Quarters at Sha Tin, Tai Po Kau and Ma Liu Shui.

51. New Works and Improvements

(a) To improve the movement of passenger traffic during train cross- ings at Tai Po Market Station, an overhead bridge with a span of 624 feet was constructed. Some 145 square yards of the queue- ing and booking area in front of the station building were built over with insulated roofing on steel trusses.

(b) The old Lo Wu station building, which was a steel shed, was completely demolished and replaced by a reinforced concrete building with improved booking facilities and large waiting halls. The new building covers an area of 4,300 square feet with a canopy of 1,200 square feet extending over the passenger plat- form. The aluminium arch roofing over the border bridge was also extended by 32 feet so as to provide a covered footpath all the way from the Chinese border to our Immigration Office. (c) To facilitate handling of goods and improve the flow of vehicular traffic at Blackheads Yards, 12,340 square yards of cement con- crete roads, loading and turning areas were constructed.

(d) Four additional waiting shelters, covering a total area of 6,620 square feet were constructed at Fanling Station. The existing waiting shelter was also extended to cover an area of 2,040 square feet.

(e) To improve the drainage system along the track from Mile 3 to Mile 31, cement concrete open channels, totalling 740 yards in length were constructed.

(f) Some 25,600 cubic yards of earth, taken from sites worked by the Development Office, Public Works Department, were dumped along the embankment from Mile 5 to Mile 7 to widen the

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